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Things in Glocca Morra by Peter Collier
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63“What’s the point of being Irish anyway if you don’t think the world will break your heart?” asks Jack Kennedy. He is spellbound by a song about Ireland’s neverland of dreams: “How Are Things in... -
Proust and Venice by Peter Collier 9780521673389
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £36.00Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is a fascinating exploration not only of memory and desire, of high society and everyday life, but also of art. The... -
The Kennedys: An American Drama by Peter Collier
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641771931Author Peter CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Choosing Courage by Peter Collier 9781579657055
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Riveting real-life accounts of heroism from Medal of Honor recipients, including Clinton Romesha (author of Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor) and exceptional civilians like schoolteacher... -
The Roosevelts: An American Saga by Peter Collier 9780684801407
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684801407Author Peter CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint -
Literary Theory Today Peter Collier 9780745609720
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also... -
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by Peter Collier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.23As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject... -
New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Culture and Film by Peter Collier 9783039118502
RRP: £51.30Booksplease Price: £46.18The notion of crime crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. In an era of identity fraud, eco-crime and global terrorism, this collection moves towards a reconsideration of crime in the... -
Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture by Peter Collier 9783039118465
RRP: £72.35Booksplease Price: £64.31Memory has always been crucial to French literature and culture as a means of mediating the relationship between perception and knowledge of the individual coming to terms with his identity in time... -
Marie Darrieussecq’s Textual Worlds: Self, Society, Language by Peter Collier 9783034307666
RRP: £34.60Booksplease Price: £31.80This is the first book-length study devoted to the work of Marie Darrieussecq, one of France's leading contemporary writers, whose work has proved fascinating to both critics and readers for its... -
Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty by Peter Collier 9781579657468
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30An updated edition of the New York Times bestseller, featuring 12 new recipients and a new foreword by Bradley Cooper Eight veterans from the war in Afghanistan have been awarded our nation's... -
Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks in Europe, 1700-1900 by Peter Collier 9783039119721
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £39.90The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers formed connections with... -
She’s Leaving Home: Women’s Writing in English in a European Context by Peter Collier 9783034301671
RRP: £38.80Booksplease Price: £35.42This collection of essays, written by scholars from all over Europe, explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home. Although all the chapters analyse writings in English, the volume aims to... -
The Fiction of J. M. G. Le Clézio: A Postcolonial Reading by Peter Collier 9783034301626
Booksplease Price: £55.87Since the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, there has been a wave of new interest in his oeuvre. This book traces the evolution of the writer's postcolonial thought... -
Making Sense: For an Effective Aesthetics- Includes an original essay by Jean-Luc Nancy by Peter Collier 9783034307178
RRP: £38.80Booksplease Price: £35.42This volume of texts and images has evolved from papers given at the inaugural Making Sense colloquium, which was held at the University of Cambridge in September 2009. The chapters collected here... -
Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities: Women’s Writing in English in a European Context by Peter Collier 9783039114139
RRP: £35.60Booksplease Price: £32.66The notion of citizenship is part of a national collective memory and a memory of individuals belonging to a specific geographical, historical and cultural context. The volume seeks to investigate... -
Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s Writing: Leduc, Duras, Beauvoir, Cardinal, Hyvrard by Peter Collier 9783039115402
RRP: £37.70Booksplease Price: £34.47This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women's writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc's L'Asphyxie (1946), Marguerite... -
From Bad Boys to New Men?: Masculinity, Sexuality and Violence in the Work of Éric Jourdan by Peter Collier 9783034307369
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £39.90This book is the first critical survey of the work of Eric Jourdan. Jourdan first came to public attention as a schoolboy in 1955, when he published Les Mauvais anges, a sulphorous novel of... -
Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2: The Acquisition of Sociostylistic Variation by Peter Collier 9783039115693
RRP: £35.60Booksplease Price: £32.66This book presents six new studies on identity construction in the speech of older adolescents and young adults learning French. It takes a sociolinguistic approach to acquisition. First language... -
Songbirds on the Literary Stage: The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz by Peter Collier 9783034307345
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.46This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the... -
Adaptation: Studies in French and Francophone Culture by Neil Archer 9783034302227
RRP: £34.60Booksplease Price: £31.80Originating in the conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2009, this collection of essays includes a range of innovative papers from across the diverse field of French and Francophone... -
Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing: Dialogue, Diversity and Displacement by Susan Bainbrigge 9783039113828
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £48.47Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores questions of cultural... -
Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine by Charlotte Baker 9783034301794
RRP: £43.40Booksplease Price: £39.38This study focuses on fictional representations of albinism in the work of the French writers Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, and the Francophone Guinean writer Williams Sassine. The focus... -
Michel Houellebecq: Author of our Times by John (1956-) McCann 9783039113736
RRP: £39.80Booksplease Price: £36.28Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any of the awareness... -
Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres by Crispin T. Lee 9783034317917
RRP: £51.65Booksplease Price: £46.49Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a... -
Ecclesiastical Law, Clergy and Laity: A History of Legal Discipline and the Anglican Church by Neil Patterson 9780367586256
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Discipline in an ecclesiastical context can be defined as the power of a church to maintain order among its members on issues of morals or doctrine. This book presents a scholarly engagement with the... -
Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts by Michael Grenfell 9781845202347
Booksplease Price: £37.07Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his... -
The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories by Honore de Balzac
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant... -
The Beautiful and the Monstrous: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture by Amaleena Damle 9783039119004
RRP: £40.90Booksplease Price: £37.23The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages. This... -
Subversion ou conformisme ?: La difference des sexes dans l'oeuvre d'Agota Kristof by Simona Cutcan 9783034317139
RRP: £54.25Booksplease Price: £48.73Cet ouvrage propose une etude de la question du genre dans l'oeuvre d'Agota Kristof, ecrivaine suisse francophone d'origine hongroise. La preponderance des narrateurs masculins dans sa prose suggere... -
Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology by Hugues Azerad 9780521713986
Booksplease Price: £33.80Modern French poetry is unique in the boldness and creativity of its experiments in form and genre, from classical verse to vers libre, from calligrammes to prose poems and poesie sonore. This... -
Developing Effective Student Peer Mentoring Programs: A Practitioner's Guide to Program Design, Delivery, Evaluation, and Training Peter J. Collier 9781620360767
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73At a time when college completion is a major issue, and there is particular concern about the retention of underserved student populations, peer mentoring programs offer one solution to promoting... -
The Myth of Individualism: How Social Forces Shape Our Lives by Peter L. Callero 9781442266261
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.67The Myth of Individualism is a wonderful, concise introduction to sociology and sociological thinking, showing readers how social forces shape our lives and the world. Revised and updated throughout,...